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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the budget for 2005 expresses the authoritarian, anti-grass roots policy of the European Union, the objective of which is to safeguard and increase the profits of big business. It strengthens the reactionary character and militarisation of the European Union. This is being achieved by further drastic cutbacks in social benefits and by transferring appropriations in order to strengthen the military arm of the European Union.
It is anti-grass roots, because it is predicated on promoting the Lisbon strategy and stepping up the attack on workers' employment and social rights. Money is being taken from small and medium-sized farmers, with the result that they are being exterminated and entire areas are being abandoned and deserted. It does not take account of the needs generated by enlargement in ten countries and it calls on workers, women, young people, small- and medium-sized farmers, trades and handicrafts, the working classes in the less developed areas in all twenty-five Member States, to foot the bill for the creation of an attractive business environment for big business.
The package of social appropriations which many are promising is proving to be a myth for the workers. The social budget is dynamic, but it supports the financially strongest, big business, and the means and mechanisms for repressing the fight of the financial weak, the grass-roots, working classes. Unfortunately, however many amendments are made, they will not change the reactionary character of the budget, which is why we shall be voting against it."@en1
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